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<p style="margin-top:0; ; font-weight: bold">Mediating Exclusion  Through Journalism (2011-2013 SSHRC Standard Grant)</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0;">From the perspective of a critical sociology of media  oriented through cultural studies, this research program posits journalism as a practice of exclusion.  Through the textual analysis of newspaper reports of a series of media events, we propose to examine the ways  in which journalists address their implied audience, forms of address that include some people and  exclude others. These exclusions have serious repercussions for notions of citizenship, formal or  informal, in local or global terms. They expose flaws in the perception of journalism as a public service and  deficiencies in the treatment of the news media as a democratically oriented  communications system. The impact is particularly significant for groups already socially excluded, such as refugees, undocumented  immigrants and the poor. We focus on how these exclusions occur in news texts, what they portend for  local and global citizenship, and what remedies would produce more inclusive journalism.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">We highlight two interrelated modes of exclusion:  representation and audience address. In the representational exercises of reporting and editing,  journalists create a world, fill that world with actors and events, and orient audiences to the world they have  created. Journalists are story-tellers to their communities, producing a particular news geography that  outlines the contours of community, asserts social membership criteria, identifies centres of  institutional power, and situates that community within local, regional and global networks of interaction. In so  doing, they sketch a particular map of who and where 'we' are, putting particular events, people,  institutions, concerns and solutions on the map, marginalizing and excluding others: those who are either not  represented, or are depicted as marginal, deviant or threatening.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">Journalism also excludes through audience address. The first  reader of any newspaper is the imagined reader. Because news is what journalists deem to be  significant to the information needs of an idealized audience, this imagined audience informs news judgment,  story selection, story play, and the textual presentation of the story itself. Operating from  conventional understandings of newsworthiness and who constitutes the imagined  audience for their reports, journalists create categories of relevant and irrelevant, compatible and incompatible, same and other,  divisions between what Hartley (1992) calls &quot;We-doms&quot; and &quot;They-doms.&quot; Silverstone  (2007) employs the concept of the &quot;mediapolis&quot; to describe the mediated public space in which we engage with sameness  and otherness.</p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">The exclusionary nature of these practices is at odds with  journalism's standing as a core institution of democracy, its purported mission of public service and its  place within a contemporary public sphere. They undermine the egalitarian potential of the mediapolis,  deny certain people full membership within the polity, and extend the critique that mainstream news  providers have become increasingly devoted to serving markets rather than  publics. </p>
<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;">We focus on two years of newspaper coverage (2010-2011) of  the three themes in eight paired cities to provide a comparative critique of how late liberal  democracies are reaching limits in their capacity to absorb difference and to suggest ways journalism might be  made more inclusive. Through a series of textual analyses of newspaper reports in Vancouver-Los  Angeles, Toronto-Miami, Montreal-New York, and London-Paris, and through workshop-group sessions  combining researchers, journalists and members of socially-excluded groups in Montreal, Toronto and  Vancouver, this research program seeks to identify, critique and propose ways to reduce the gaps  journalists create between the public and the idealized audience.</p>
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